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/ Abbeville Press and Banner Established 1844. $2.00 the Year. Abbeville, S. C., Friday, Nov. 29, 1918. Single Copies, Five Cents. 75th Year. THIRTIETH DIVISION " TO RETURN TO U.S. South Carolina Nation- SJ( al Guard Troops Com- thr ing Home Shortly. in* ' anc DEPARTURE CHEERED BY PRAISE FROM HAIG pot " ing Commander of British For cat Styi jn Dm<U Will Rank With HifW but Achievements of War. Open- jn , ad Way to Final Victory by ^ Gallant Conduct in Bal- ^ ( ' ?**" . ten bre American Army Headquarters in ten France, Nov. 26.?The Seventy-sixth cut division of the American army, r re- gcc dnced by replacement drafts to 61 ^ officers and 1,000 men, has arrived at the port of St. Nazaire and is em- ?<pc barking for home. The Twenty-seventh division, to- *" taling 484 officers and 12,681 men, res1 and the Thirtieth division, totaling 488 officers and 12,099 men, both of an which operated on the British front, 1 have been withdrawn from the Le- ent tnans area and probably will embark wel in a few days. nat _ ?ov With the British Army in B?lHum, Sunday, Nov. 24.?The Ameri- an can second corps, which served with fist the British Fourth army daring the ? ? closing days of the war, has been re- &bl< irarded for its work by a glowing pat , er of praiM from Field Marshal fori Haig, the British commander in the chief. had The field marshal's message to the the commander of the corps says: nat "Now that yon are leaving the 1 British zone I wish again to thank poii yon and all the officers, non-commis- staj sioned officers and men on behalf of at i myself and all ranks of the British she armies in France and Flanders for by the very gallant and efficient service liar you have rendered during your op-i bac erationg with the British Fourth and army. 'iui "On the 29th of September you I participated with distinction in a the great and critical attack which shat- ors tered the enemy's resistance on the ed Hindenburg line and which opened Pro the road to final victory. bra "The deeds of the Twenty-seventh by 'and Thirtieth American divisions 1 "which took Bellecourt and Nauroy gar and gallantly sustained the desper- cha ate struggle for Bony will rank with to the highest achievements of the war. f0u "The names of Brancourt, Pre- sti< mont, Busigny, Vaux-Andigny, St. vh< Souplet and Wassigny will testify to m0i the dash and energy of your attacks, I am proud to have had you in my me command." of | tioi The Thirtieth division mentioned I ros by Field Marshal Haig is composed sca chiefly of troops from Tennessee, me North Carolina, South Carolina, and| ] the District of Columbia. It is known (toK as the "Old Hickory" Division. Thej fro Twenty-seventh and Thirtieth divis-1 .a(j \ ions probably were the first Ameri- 0 can divisions to fight in Belgium,' nr0 having crossed the border with the! Fourth British army. The Twenty- si(j seventh division is composed of New; York troops. ^ ! rh Washington, Nov. 25.?No active fro I division of the American expedition-. ary forces can be landed in the Unit-1 r ed States before Christmas, Secre- me tary Baker said today. The policy of; tW( returning first the thousands of cas-! uals and auxiliary troops from Eng- , I ra land will postpone the movement of j firt line troops which have been de-! ( signated for release. j njr 1 BUYING A HOME. mil Mr. Clifton Sprouse has bought | the cottage on lower Main street now ha, occupied by Mr. and Mrs. John T. ga] Cheatham and will move his family about the first of the year. The cot- j tage was owned by Dr. McMurray La and sold for three thousand dollars. c>t; > I % a' IGRY FIGHTING MEN | ATTACK SOCIALISTS monstration in Madison Square it Which Red Necktie* and Flower* Were U*ed to Erade Mayor's Edict. few York, Nov. 25.?Hundreds of iiers, sailors and marines broke ough a cordon of police surroundMadison Square Garden tonight 1 attacked international Socialists t> had attended! a mass meeting at i ich Bolshevik doctrines were exinded. The men and women leav- ( the hall broke and fled as the men ] uniform charged past the police, ] . were pursued into the side strets ; all directions. ' | fhe attack on the Socialists came < ;he close of a meeting which threaed from the moment it began to ak into a riot. It was called ossibly to protest against the exeion of Thomas J. Mooney, but >tt Nearing, who presided, and the er speakers devoted most of their Biition to pleas for the release of litical" offenders. i lereral men and women were artod for displaying red flags smagi into the garden in defiance of edict by Mayor "Hylan. >arge numbers of men in uniform ered the building before the doors re locked with the avowed determiion of preventing attacks upon the ernment They were restrained h difficulty by police from making assault on the stage. Scores of finAh amm inton^intii/) Ktj nfflcom I Soldiers and sailors -who were unb to get into the meeting sent out rols to round up all men in unim who could be found to join in charge on the Socialists which [ bees planned to take place when oratory was ended and the interionalists started for their homes, iadison Square was the rallying at for the military. The quickly ?ed an impromptu mass meeting which speakers denounced the Bolvik. They were cheered not only the men in uniform, but by civii sympathizers. They were driven :k, however, by mounted police L men on foot who surrounded the lding. Realizing- that they had failed in first attack, the soldiers and sailresumed their meeting and awaitthe arrival of reniforcements. bably one thousand men of both nches of the service had assembled j the time the meeting adjourned. ^ [*he opening of the doors of the ^ den was the signal for a second rge which the police were unable ( repel. The soldiers and sailors ght their way past swinging night :ks and attacked the Socialists, o had packed the big building. Alst instantly the square was filled 1 ;h yelling, running and fighting i' n. The screams of women, most;1 them wearing red roses or carna-| as in lieu of the forbidden flags,'' e above the din as they clawed and j tched the sodliers who were pu-|( Iling the male Socialists. I! Counted police, reinforced by au-|! tiobile loads of reserves, rushed m every station house within a |' lious of miles, struggling valiently | ^ clear the square but made little i igress. Soldiers and sailors 1 roughly angered by what they con- ' ered an insidious attack on the flag y had sworn to defend, paid little ' ention to blows from night sticks. ' i ey were bent on getting revenge; m the internationalists and many ! them succeeded. rhe square was cleared of milling' n only when Socialists by one and as and in groups broke and fled. |i e scrimmage in the park was then nsferred on a smaller scale into j ivy neighboring street. Groups of Socialists soon were run-! ig madly along Fifth Avenue a half j le north and south of Twenty-Sixth ( *eet pursued by shouting soldiers, i1 >st of them hatless and coatless, j ring lost the major part of their, rments in the scuffle. JTr. M. E. Rcbinson, of Level nd, was a business visitor to the y or Wednesday. FROM CAPT. W He Writes His Mother of the I Without Sugar?He Look* a Channel a Nightmare?No 1 French Girls, Everybody Bed Conducise to Piat; tha Cc France, Oct 19, 1918. Dearest Mama, This is my 37th birthday and I'm going to celebrate by writing you a long letter. I've almost lost the knack of letter writing. Every morning my first task is to censor the letters written by the members of my ietachment (as adjutant I am in :ommand of the headquarters detachment) and after that it is diffl:ult to write any yourself. Also ;here is so much we are not permit;ed to write about. We had a very pleasant trip over. [ was adjutant on the ship and be leve me, it was some job, but I grot iway with it fine and was highly !omplimented by the General, the Thief of Staff and the captain of the ihip. There -wasn't much excitenent worth mentioning. I think I lave already told you that we landed n England. They didn't let us tarry ong there. I have some very vivid mpressions left tho. The night we Tossed the bar they kept me busy rntil two o'clock ^nd I remember ' thanked God that I could go to bed without my shoesy but they called me it four and they (the other officers) xearly mobbed me because I had even buglers blowing reveille hrough the ship at five. The way hey unloaded that ship of its 2,500 >assengers was a marvel. There It vas that I had my first experience ?x cunee wjcQ?ui sugar. ^ it was mu ight though. Shortly after we were tntrained and on oar way across England. We passed a large flour nill and there were> thousands of rirls in rather' tight fitting white iveralls. Their enthusiasm was renarkable. They waved and threw asses at us (and some even cried) as far as we could see. But all the vay across England they waved at us md greeted us with cheers. We had :offee enroute, and were given a let;er of welcome from King George, t I vhich I am inclosing for you to keep for me. We finally arrived at a rest :amp where we spent the night. A ieutenant and I went walking with rwo very pretty girls?they were rery pleasant and agreeable but not is pretty as the American girl. I lon't believe the English girl takes is good care of her teeth as the American girl does. Crossing the channel was a nightmare. Not exceptionally rough but jur ship was crowded. They made me adjutant again and this time I had English and Australian officers also. I slept on the floor that night, i They* marched us to another rest :amp and by the time I'd had a shave and a good bath and eaten something (while kidding the waitress) I was told to roll my bed. I] did not mind though because as the! French say, "c'est la guerre." I have been here now over three months and in that time have seen luite a bit of France having been in i Paris twice, east almost to Switzer-I land, south halfway to Marseilles! and north near enough to the front! io hear the cannons shooting. It isj a great country and the prettiest Ii think I have ever seen. The houses are all stone or brick! with red tile roofs and they present1 a beautiful sight when viewed in the; distance. Close up they show a rigid' plainness of style and a solidity of obstruction I have never seen before. The villages in England will always remind me of a vast forest of chimnevs. houses, windows and curtains all the same. Here they are different. One striking thing here is the great abundance of flowers. And a curious sight I have seen frequently in the East of France is a pear tree trained to grow flat against the side of a stone house, and loaded with fruit. HOME FOR FEEBLE-MINDED TO BE ERECTED AT ONCE Governor Gets Fundi?Federal Government Will Provide Quarter* at State Penitentiary For Women Prisoner*. . All restrictions have been removed by the war industries board against the use of materials for the construction of buildings, work is to begin r within the next few weeks on the , home for the feeble-minded, created ( by the last general assembly. Governor Manning a few days ago res ceived a permit from the war indus, tries board to proceed with the building, and since that time all restrictions have been removed. The Board of Regents at the State r. L. HEMPHILL. Pleasures of Army Life?Coffee it Their Teeth?The English ["rouble to Make Love to the Being Willing?A French j?Through Peril With ilonel. The roads here are unusually good. The Routes Nationales are beautiful. These radiate from Paria to, and connect up with each other, tire important cities of the RepubHque. There are enough of these to reach around the earth at the equator, .4,000 miles. Next are the Routes DepartmenI tales (County Roads) which are the rdads which radiate from the different county seats, or "Chiefa-lieux". There are 18,600 miles of these. Then there are second class county roads?village roads, and farm roads. An auto trip over France in peace time certainly would be a wonderful experience. , Nearly every letter I have to cen8or describes the French railways and trains as diminutive and plaything affairs!. True, the rolling stock Is! lighter than ours and the engines hare no cow-catchers nor bells and ifye whistles remind one somewhat of the whistle on a street corner popcorn roaster, but for all that they do the work and do it very efficiently too, which in the end is all that counts; The roadbeds are good, safety devices numerous, the guage broader than ours, and wrecks almost unknown. The trains here are very fast?ride easily and in first (they have 1st, 2nd, and 8rd) class at least are comfortable. The year bifforf the war the railroads of Ftance earned 425 millions of passengers -or 13,877 per mile. The stations are all very pretty with flowers, hedges and trees. They remirtd me of the Pennsylvania stations and are always fenced in and your ticket is punched as you enter. It is taken up as you leave the station of your destination. The conductor does not come around and punch it enroute. One of the lieutenants said to me when I arrived from Paris: "Say, you don't mean to tell me you actually paid for a ticket, do you?" I sup pose it really wouldn't be difficult to ride without paying. ' The express trains have diners on them. They serve a regular table d'hote dinner which with wine costs about $2.00. Ybu are served by women. Some of the fast trains have sleeping cars. They have also an arrangement called couchettes (from coucher to sleep). They are somewhat like our reclining chair cars. I haven't tried either of these yet. We get the military rate which is about a cent a mile in first closs." The women over here are wonderful. The younger ones are stylish, - retty and charming. Almost all of the work formerly done by the male population is now being done by the female population. And they are doing it well too.. You see them as street car conductors, baggage smashers, taxi drivers bartenders, and farmers. They certainly love the American soldier?and judging from what I see and hear?the American soldier doesn't let anybody outdo him. Ac -Tr\r? YTt-xT TTVonVi TMoil T am tyaf. 4A.I3 XVI *44 jr X 4^1IV4ii IT v^4ij Jk Will f,VW ting along fine. I can talk to them, joke with them and even make love to them. We get the French papers in the morning and the Colonel usually sends for me to read it to him. | In the evening we get the English i papers?The Paris editions of the : New York Herald, The Chicago Trii bune and the London Daily Mail. ! They consist usually of one sheet ' only, printed on both sides, of | course, and cost 4 cents in our ! money. The money over here you know is i the franc. It is divided into 100 centimes (pronounced Sahn-teem). I The smallest piece of money tho is ' the 5 centime piece called a "sou" (Continued on Page Two.) Hospital for the Insane have accepted the cite in Laurens county near Clin* ton. Several hundred acres are in the tract presented. The property ; was recently purchased by residents ] of that section at a cost of $18,000 j The general assembly last session ap- < propriated $60,000 for this institution, of which amount $30,000 is a- < vailable this year and $30,000 next i year. The act provides that "the 1 building shall be plain and inexpen- i sive in character, and that, in so far j \s practicable, the labor in construct- ] :.ng such buildings, improvements, ind facilities shall be supplied by the onvicts of the State penitentiary." 1 A meeting of the Board of Regents' < of the State Hospital for the Insane will be held early in December when 1 the plans will be outlined for proce- < dure. i *4;' Restriction of the use of building 1 ntterial by the WW industries board 1 has also delayed work on the building 1 j for the Industrial School for Girls, I which was also created by the last : ! general assembly and which is to be ? built on State lands in Lexington county, near Columbia. The insti- 1 tution is to be simiHar in character i '.o that at Florence for boys. An ap- 1 >ropriation of $40,000 was made by the legislature last February, and 1 Governor Manning has procured from < 'he federal government $40,000. 1 j which amount has already been plac-j1 ed on deposit in one of the Columbia I banks. Females between the ages 1 >f eight and 20 years are to be ad-: ] mitted to this institution; girls, "who ( 3hall have been tried before any mag'strate, county, city or circuit court and found guilty of violating any laws for which the punishment is fine ' or imprisonment in-the State peni sntiary or city jail or by hard labo or any city or county; or who know ?ly associates with thieves, viciou or immoral persons; are incorrigible; absent themselves from home without . ! or without just cause; are growing upj j n idleness or crime; knowingly visit -. j >r enter a house of ill repute; visit or; j | patronize gambling houses, saloons! lor other immoral resorts; wander a-j' ! bout the streets at night; use vile,I ^ | obscene or indecent language or arej | immoral or indecent." j i .1 '| Another large amount from thej I ieaerai government is aiso iiKeiy toj , be procured in the interest of wo-!, ' men prisoners. Recently Mrs. Mar-p j tha P. Falconer, representing the.] war department on training camp ac-, ( | tivities, visited Columbia and propos- . ! ed to Governor Manning and the board of directors of the State peni-j 1 tentiary a plan whereby a large new 'building will be added to the peni-' j "entiary equipment from federal ] j funds. This building is to be erect- < ! cd on State farm lands and is to be [ \ women's prison farm. The condi- 1 tions on which the federal govern-' 1 J ment will give the funds and. to11 wllirVi fJnvprnnr Mnnnino' arirl fVio i t' board of directors have agreed is i : that the 40 or 50 women prisoners , are to be sent there and not kept' 'housed in the old penitentiary build-'1 ings; that the State penitentiary au-' '\ thorities will provide for the mainte-' ance of these prisoners as they are* now provided for and also pay the 1 i staff in charge of the prisoners; and >I that federal women prisoners in the | 'State be admitted, the federal gov;! ernment to allow so mjich per diem ' for the maintenance of the federal prisoners. i CONGRESS 10 CHOP7 THE EXPENDITURES Has Served Warning to Heads of Departments Already. PEACE-BASIS FIGURES AND NOT WAR COSTS " y . ..v: Will Be the Yard Stick to Be Applied?No Salary Increase* at Tkis Time?-Conyresa to Take Full C l -f n 1 r? vommana or Financial won* traction to Enforce Peace Time Economy. Washington, Nov. 27.?Unexpended war appropriations must be returned to the treasury, Chairman ' Sherley, of the House appropriations committee announced today. . In a letter to cabinet officials and ither heads of independent departnents Sherley set oat the determination of Congress to take full comnand of financial construction with i view to enforcing a program of jeace time economy. Washington, Nov. 27.?Con gran ias determined to take fall command ' >f financial reconstruction. Executive heads are to be asked a cooperate toward a program or Irastic peace time economy, but > whether or not they comply they will be made aware that Congress lolds the final authority in money natters. Developments, expected soon, will serve as a warning to cabinet officials and others who spend money. 1.?That any unexpended war sp-. _ propriations in the hands of departments will be revoked by Congress it once. 2.?That expenditures on contract ar other war work must stop immediately and any excess supplies on hand must he liquidated and the money returned to the treasury. 3.?That all departmental estimates for the fiscal yea rof 1919-20 must be recalled by departments and chopped to the last cent. While economic talk ftas flown thick and fast about Congress since the end of the war, Chairman Swagar Sherley, of the House appropriations has taken the first definite action. YOUNG BUSINESS MAN OF DONALDS KILLED IN ACTION ; Donalds, Nov. 23.?On the 20 inst, Mr. Wm. Maddox of Ware Shoals, received official notice that his son, Louis F. Maddox, was killed in ac- x tion on October 15. Mr. Maddox was a salesman for L. J. Davis of Donalds prior to his entry into the service and was one of the best and aost popular young business men that we knew. A letter from a young French lady reports that Walter Jackson was wounded. Mr. Jackson is another' Donalds boy. As there has been no letters received from France for several weeks and as nearly all the Donllds boys have been in heavy fighting, ihere is uneasiness about all of them. ONE MORE BOND ISSUE. Washington, Nov. 27.?Secretary McAdoo today announced plans "for ane more great popular campaign for sale of bonds." In a letter to all banks made public by the treasury he outlined the treasury's policy for the next five months embracing a series of bi-weekly treasury certificates issued in anticipation of the fifth loan. Cessation of hostilities, McAdoo's letter said, has by no means brought to an end the heavy war cost. Government expenditures for the month of November will exceed -2,000,000000 and establish a new record for monthly war cost. The letter explained that there can be no definite forecast for disbursement of the next five months because of the pending uncertainty of the revenue legislation.